Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Jaago aur jagaao
Posted on: January 17, 2011
Qawwalis are normally the longest songs in Hindi movies. But sometimes stage songs also give qawwalis a run for their money as far as their duration is concerned.
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“Champakali” (1957) is a movie which is known to music lovers for its iconic song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke). All these days, this song was all I knew about this movie.
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“Grihasthhi” (1963) was a family drama in which Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy (the standard couple of those days) play the parents of no less than seven daughters ! So naturally, much of the movie revolves around the efforts of the parents to get their daughters married off.
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Agar mujhse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 10, 2011
I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song long back, and so I was surprised to know that I was wrong. I do not know how I missed discussing this song in the past.
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I receive hundreds of farmaishes for songs that are not yet posted in this blog. Many of these farmaishes are for songs that are well known and/or relatively easily avaiable. Sometimes though, there are farmaishes for songs that are very difficult to find. There are cases where the farmaish giver was desperately seeking the song for years and even decades without success. It is highly satisfying for me when sometimes I am actually able to locate these elusive songs after some nice detective work.
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Kyun mile ham tum bewafaa o sanam
Posted on: January 6, 2011
Fans of my generation remember Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy for playing the roles of parents, but that was not always the case. In their younger days (it may be difficult to believe, but they were actually young as some time in the past), they actually acted in lead roles.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) was one of those B grade movies that made it big mainly because of its music. Almost all its songs went on to become very popular and some of the songs are remembered to this day. I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie and it includes the evergreen song Chaahe paas ho chaahe door ho .
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Though I have discussed nearly 20 % of all the Madan Mohan songs already, there are still lots and lots of Madan Mohan songs that are yet to come to my notice. I have so far discussed songs from 67 movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies. It means that as many as 25 movies with Madan Mohan’s music are still to get covered in this blog.
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Laadley so jaa
Posted on: January 2, 2011
Most movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies ended up as box office disasters. Many of these movies are today remembered mainly for their music rather than for anything else. And what timeless music these movies had !
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Here is yet another of those songs that I thought I had already discussed in this blog but I was wrong. This is a memorable rail song and I have discussed this song alright, but that was in another forum/blog while I was discussing rail songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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